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[Republished  by  the  Union  Republican  State  Central  Committee  of  California.] 

Republican  Economy  vs.  Democratic  Extravagance. 


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HON.  JAMES  G.  ELAINE, 

OF    MAINE, 

IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  JULY  2,  1868. 


The   House    being  in    Committee   of  the 
Whole    on    the    Deficiency    Appropriation 
bill- 
Mr.  ELAINE  said: 

Mr.  CHAIRMAN  :  We  have  entered  upon  a 
new  fiscal  year,  and  the  last  appropriation 
bill  to  provide  for  its  expenditures  has  been 
reported  and  is  now  before  the  House.  The 
occasion  seems  a  fit  one  for  a  brief  survey 
of  our  financial  situation  and  for  a  pertinent 
answer  to  the  many  misrepresentations  so 
industriously  spt  afloat  in  regard.to  govern- 
mental expenditures.  A  very  labored  at- 
tempt has  been  mad?  throughout  the  coun- 
try by  certain  parties  and  partisans  tp 
create  the  impression  that  the  expenditures 
of  this  Congress  are  on  a  scale  of  heedless 
and  reckless  extravagance.  I  propose  to 
show  that  such  is  not  the  fact,  but  that,  on 
the  contrary,  the  expenditures  are  made 
with  far  more  regard  to  economy  than  dis- 
tinguished the  last  Democratic  administra- 
tion that  was  in  power  in  this  country.  The 
question  is  one  of  figures  and  not  of  argu- 
ment, and  hence  I  proceed  at  once  to  the 
figures. 

It  is  important  at  the  outset,  to  a  clear 
understanding  and  clear  comparison  of 
Government  expenditures  at  the  present 
time  and  the  period  immediatelv  preceding 
the  war,  to  distinguish  between  those  ex- 
penditures which  were  the  inevitable  conse- 
quence of  the  rebellion,  and -therefore  un- 
avoidable, and  those  which  may  be  to  a 
certain  extent  controlled  by  the  discretion 
and  fidelity  of  Congress.  Of  those  expen- 
ditures, which  are  the  direct  outgrowth  of 
the  rebellion,  I  count  the  interest  on  the 
war  debt  and  the  pensions  and  bounties  to 
soldiers  and  sailors.  These  are  expenditures 
which  are  not  discretionary  but  are  impera 
tiyely  demanded,  unless  the  nation  is  pre- 
pared on  the  one  hand  to  defraud  its 
creditors,  or  on  the  other  to  turn  its  back 
on  the  brave  men  who  risked  everything 
that  the  Republic  might  survive. 

The  annual  interest  on  the  public  debt 
amounts  to  one  hundred  and  twenty-nine 
million  six  hundred  and  seventy-eight 


thousand  seventy-eight  dollars  and  fifty 
cents.  The  pension-roll  for  the  year  will  be 
thirty  million  three  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars,  and  the  bounties  due  and 
payable  will  require  about  thirty  million 
dollars.  These  three  items,  which  are  not 
discretionary,  amount  to  the  large  aggre^ 
oate  of  nearly  one  hundred  and  ninety 
million  dollars,  well  nigh  two  thirds  of  our 
total  outlay  for  the  fiscal  year  upon  which 
we  have  just  entered.  The  fact  that  so 
large  a  proportion  of  our  expenditure  is  the 
result  of  the  war,  and  is  unavoidable  unless 
we  repudiate  our  obligations  to  our  public 
creditors  and  our  heroic  soldiers,  cannot  be 
too  often  repeated  or  too  thoroughly  im- 
pressed on  the  public  mind  ;  for  it  is  idle  to 
denounce  these  expenditures  as  extravagant 
unless  we  are  prepared  to  withhold  them  ; 
and  whoever  proposes  to  withhold  them 
propose?  thereby  to  put  the  nation  at  the 
same  time  under  the  doubly  disgraceful 
stigma  of  repudiation  and  ingratitude.  If 
the  Democratic  party  choose  to  assume 
that  position  it  is  welcome  to  all  the  glory 
of  it. 

For  the  ordinary  expenditures  of  Govern- 
ment for  the  fiscal  year  which  has  just  be- 
gun the  appropriations  are  as  follows  : 

Executive,    legislative,  and    judicial,  embra^insr    *H 
Department  salaries  and  expenses.... $17, 48", 000  00 

F>r  the  Army 33,081, 013  10 

For  the  Navy 17,500,000  00 

West  Point  Military  Academy 30  i. 000  00 

Cousnl-ir  and  dipl  >m<itic  service 1, 206.43 1  00 

Post    Offi-e  Department 2,500  000  00 

Indian  bureau,  treaties,  &c 2,500,000  00 

Rivers  and  hirbors 4700,000  00 

Collecting  the  revenue 9,969,000  00 

Sundry     civil    expenditures     connected 

wit li  the  various  Departments 6,020,00000 

Miscellaneous  expenses  of  all  kinds,  in- 
eluding  cost  of  certain  pub  ic  bui  din«« 
throughout  the  C"imtry,  expenses  of 
reconstruction  fxncnse  of  dosing  up 

Fr-ertmeu's  Bureau,  &c 9,000,00000 

Deficient  s  of  various  kiuds  in  the  dif- 
ferent appropriations 2, 560  Of'O  00 

Making  alotalof $106818.447  10 

I  differ  in  some  items  from  the  recent 
statements  of  the  honorable  chairman  of 
Ways  and  Means,  for  T  think  he  included 
in  the  expenses  of  this  year  a  deficiency  of 
thirteen  million  dollars  resulting  from  the 


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Indian  war  of  1867  ;  which  amount  was  ap- 
propriated and  spent  last  year  and  has  no 
proper  connection  whatever  with  the  ex- 
penditures of  the  current  fiscal  year.  And 
he  also  includes,  incorrectly  I  think,  some 
twenty  four  million,  appropriations  overlap 
ping  from  the  year  which  has  closed  to  the 
present.  I  say  incorrectly,  because  this 
amount  will  be  offset  by  a  similar  amount 
which  overlaps  from  this  year  to  the  next, 
about  the  same  amount  going  over  each 
year,  and  this  from  necessity  owing  to  the 
mode  of  disbursement.  I  have  also  made 
the  amount  for  bounties  ten  millions  less 
than  the  chairman  estimates,  because  a 
large  proportion  which  he  includes  in  this 
year  will  necessarily  be  paid  in  the  ensuing 
year,  when  it  is  hoped  the  whole  matter 
•will  be  closed,  the  last  soldier  honorably 
paid  off,  and  the  Treasury  relieved  from 
further  obligation  in  that  direction. 

Adding  together  these  ordinary  expendi- 


tures, 
found 


to 


I  have  above,    the  sum  total  is 
be  one  hundred  and   six   miliion 


And  at  that   time  the 
all   of  nineteen    regi- 


eight  hundred  and  eighteen  thousand  four 
hundred  and  forty-seven  dollars.  If  Con- 
gress can  be  accused  of  extravagance,  the 
accusation  must  be  made  good  on  these 
figures,  or  else  abandoned,  for  the  other 
expenditures,  as  I  have  already  repeated, 
lie  without  the  pale  of  congressional  dis- 
cretion or  control.  A  clear  estimate  of  the 
character  of  these  expenditures  may-  be 
gathered  by  comparing  them  with  the  out- 
lays incurred  under  the  last  Democratic 
administration.  For  example,  in  1857-58 
the  same  class  of  expenses  in  Buchanan's 
administration  were  over  seventy  million 
dollars  in  gold,  whereas  the  one  hundred 
and  six  million  eight  hundred  and  eighteen 
thousand  four  hundred  and  forty-seven 
dollars  above  named  are  in  paper.  It  must 
be  observed,  moreover,  that  in  1857-58  the 
population  of  this  country  was  under  thirty 
millions,  whereas  .to-day  it  is  well  nigh 
forty  millions.  Adding  forty  per  cent, 
premium  on  gold,  to  bring  the  expenditures 
of  the  two  eras  to  the  same  standard,  and 
we  find  the  outlays  of  Buchanan  were  at 
the  rate  of  over  ninety-eight  millions  in 
paper  to-day.  To  this  add  one  third  for 
increase  of  population,  and  we  find  the 
Buchanan  expenditures,  adjusted  to  the 
scale  of  to-day,  would  amount  to  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  million  dollars  for  the  same 
items  that  we  are  paying  less  than  one 
hundred  and  seven  millions  for.  And  in 
this  calculation  I  have  said  nothing  about 
the  increased  military  and  naval  force  of 
the  present  day,  which  adds  immensely  to 
the  account  in  favor  of  present  economy. 

This   calculation,  stated  in  these  general 
terms,  is  far  more  striking  and  suggestive 


when  you  come  to  examine  details.  The 
Army,  for  instance,  cost  during  the  four 
years  of  Buchanan's  administration,  by  the 
official  statement  of  the  Treasury  Depart- 
ment, which  I  hold  in  my  hand,  the  large 
aggregate  of  $86,307,57*5  55,  making  an 
average  of  well  nigh  twenty-two  millions 
each  year  in  gold. 
Army  consisted  in 

merits  ;  so  that  each  regiment  cost  consider- 
ably over  a  million  each  year  in  gold.  The 
Army  at  present  contains  sixty  regiments, 
and  yet  the  whole  appropriation  asked  for 
by  General  Grant  amounts  to  little  more 
than  thirty-three  millions,  a  trifle  more 
than  half  a  million  per  regiment  each  year 
in  paper.  In  other  words,  the  Army  under 
the  peace  establishment  of  a  Democratic 
administration  immediately  preceding  the 
war  cost  per  regiment  largely  more  in  gold 
than  the  Army  now  costs  per  regiment  in. 
paper  under  the  peace  establishment  as 
administered  by  General  Grant.  The  same 
scale  of  expenditure  indulged  in  under  the 
adrninistiation  of  Buchanan  would  make 
our  present  Army  cost  over  seventy  millions 
in  gold  or  a  hundred  millions  in  paper ;  and 
until  the  latter  figure  is  exceeded  the 
Democratic  partisans  of  Buchanan  can  have 
no  ground  to  charge  that  Army  expenses  are 
Extravagant.  When  we  look  at  the  actual 
amount  spentfor  legitimate  Army  expenses, 
we  see  good  ground  for  high  compliment 
bestowed  by  President  Johnson  when,  a  few 
months  since,  he  publicly  proclaimed 
"  General  Grant's  judicious  economy  as  the 
direct  cause  of  saving  many  millions  to  the 
Treasury."  With  General  Grant's  election 
to  the  Presidency  and  the  final  pacification 
of  the  Southern  States,  our  Army  will  at 
once  be  reduced  and  the  expenditures  of  the 
War  Department  will  be  brought  to  a  point 
so  inconsiderable  as  no  longer  to  be  felt  as 
a  burden  to  the  tax  payer. 

The  comparison  in  regard  to  naval  ex- 
penditures at  the  two  periods  I  have  named, 
are  equally  suggestive  and  striking.  For 
the  four  years  of  Buchanan's  administration 
the  Navy,  by  the  official  records,  cost  fifty- 
two  million  six  hundred  and  forty-five 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  ninety-eight 
dollars  and  eighty-nine  cents — showing  an 
average  of  more  than  thirteen  millions  per 
annum  in  gold  coin.  With  a  much  larger 
Navy,  and  with  the  disadvantage  of  paper 
money  and  high  prices,  our  appropriations 
this  year  are  a  trifle  under  eighteen  millions. 
Taking  the  difference  in  the  size  of  the 
Navy  at  the  two  periods  and  the  disparity 
between  gold  and  paper,  and  we  should  be 
authorized,  if  we  followed  the  Buchanan 
standard  of  expenditure,  in  appropriating 
well  nigh  forty  millions  for  the  year's  ser- 


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vice.     These  facts  are  certainly  suggestive 
and  instructive. 

In  our  Post  Office  expenditures,  as  com- 
pared with  those  of  the  Democratic  regime^ 
the  difference  is,  if  anything,  more  striking 
than  in  the  relative  expenses  of  the  Army 
and  Ravy.  Besides  using  up  all  the  postal 
receipts,  the  Post  Office  Department  for  the 
three  last  years  of  Buchanan's  administra- 
tion made  drafts  on  the  Treasury  to  the 
amount  of  over  five  millions  a  year,  in  one 
year  running  up  to  nearly  seven  millions. 
During  the  whole  time  the  Republicans 
have  been  in  power,  the  drafts  on  the 
Treasury  for  the  support  of  the  postal  ser- 
vice have  not  averagpd  two  million  dollars 
per  annum,  and  with  this  moderate  expen* 
diture  we  have  been  enabled  to  carry  on  the 
immense  mail  service  in  the  interior  of  the 
continent  and  to  the  shores  of  the  Pacific, 
through  all  our  remote  Territories  and 
sparsely  peopled  sections,  and  have  also 
been  able  to  maintain  a  superb  line  of 
mail  steamers  from  San  Francisco  to  Hong 
Kong  and  from  New  York  to  Rio  Janeiro, 
none  of  which  extraordinary  enterprises  and 
expenditures  were  levied  on  the  Department 
during  Buchanan's  administration. 

These  comparisons  might  be  quite  indef- 
initely continued,  exhibiting  in  each  item 
the  same  result,  and  demonstrating  with 
mathematical  certainty  that  when  we  take 
into  aeeountthe  vast  increase  of  population 
and  the  rapid  and  unprecedented  develop- 
ment of  our  country  during  the  time  the 
Republican  party  has  been  in  power,  and 
when  we  take  into  further  account  the  fact 
that  we  have  been  all  the  while  subjected 
as  a  necessity  of  the  war  to  the  disadvantage 
of  high  prices  resulting  from  paper  money  ; 
taking,  I  gay,  these  facts  into  account,  1 
assert  and  defy  contradiction,  tha*  large  as 
our  expenditures  have  necessarily  beer,  they 
have  yet  been  on  a  scale  of  economy  and 
fidelity  quite  unknown  during  the  last 
Democratic  administration  that  afflicted  the 
country.  And  I  assert  further,  and  I  call 
both  political  friend  and  foe  to  the  witness 
stand  in  support  of  my  declaration,  that 
whenever  and  wherever  General  Grant  has 
been  able  to  control  governmental  expendi 
ture,  economy,  integrity,  fidelity,  and  rigid 
retrenchment  and  reduction  have  been  the 
unvarying  result. 

Consider  further,  Mr.  Chairman,  that 
•while  the  Republican  party  has  been  provid.- 
ing  the  means  for  these  expenditures,  they 
have  been  at  the  same  time  effecting  im 
t  mense  reductions  in  the  public  debt  and 
continually  and  largely  reducing  taxation 
Within  the  three  years  that  have  elapsed 
since  the  war  closed  and  the  Army  was 
mustered  out,  we  have  reduced  the  public 
debt  between  two  and  three  hundred  million 


dollars,  and  at  each  session  of  Congress,  while 
this  reduction  of  the  debt  was  going  on,  we 
have  taken  off  millions  upon  nnijHei.s  of  tax- 
ation from  the  productive  industry  ot  the 
nation.  At  the  first  session  of  the  Thirty- 
Sinth  Congress,  the  first  that  convened  tiler 
he  close  of  the  war,  taxes  were  remov- 
ed that  had  the  preceding  year  yielded  a  revenue 
of  sixty  milli  n  dollars,  and  at  the  second  ses- 
sion of  the  same  Congress  forty-one  millions 
more  of  taxes  were  pn  mptly  repealed.  The 
Fortieth  Congress  has  not  been  behind  the 
Thirty-Nibth  in  this  respect,  for  we  have  already 
repealed  taxes  that  last  year  gave  us  a  revenue 
ot  ninety  millions.  And  lo-day  the  taxes  of  the 
Federal  Government  are  so  wisely  adjusted,  and 
collected  from  such  few  sources,  that  no  man 
reels  them  burdensome,  oppressive,  or  exacting. 
Demagogues  may  misrepresent  and  partisans 
may  assail,  but  the  people  know  and  feel  tnat 
to-day  the  taxes  levied  by  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment are  not  an  oppression  to  the  individual 
and  not  a  hindrance  to  the  development  of  the 
ndustrial  resources  of  the  land. 

The  history  of  the  Republican  party,  Mr. 
Chairman,  is  indeed  a  proud  record.  Inheriting 
a  bankrupt  Trt  asury,  a  dishonored  credit,  and  a 
gigantic  rebellion  from  the  traitorous  Adminis- 
tration which  preceded  their  advent  to  power  in 
1861,  the  Rt  publicans  heroically  and  sue  -ess- 
fulh  grappled  with  and  conquered  »11  the^e  ob- 
stacles to  the  life  and  progress  of  the  nation. 
They  replenished  the  Treasury;  they  redeem- 
ed our  credit ;  they  subdued  the  mightiest 
rebellion  that  ever  confronted  civil  power 
since  governments  were  instituted  among 
men ;  they  struck  the  shackles  from  four 
millions  of  human  beings,  and  gave  them  every 
civil  right  under  the  Constitution  and  laws. 
And  while  accomplishing  these  Herculean  ta.-ks, 
the  Republican  party  administered  the  Govern- 
ment so  wisely  that  prosperity  has  been  all  the 
time  abroad  in  the  land  ;  great  business  enter- 
prises have  been  undertaken  and  successfully 
prosecuted ;  factories  have  been  built ;  the 
forest  subdued  ;  farms  brought  under  cultiva- 
tion ;  navigable  rivers  improved  ;  thousands  of 
miles  of  railway  constructed  ;  the  continent 
spanned  by  telegraph  wires;  the  two  oceans 
well  nigh  connected  by  a  road  of  iron  ;  the 
emigrant  protected  on  the  remotest  frontier  [ 
Territories  carved  out  of  the  wilderuess  domain; 
and  new  States  of  promise  and  power  added  to 
the  national  Union. 

What  other  party  in  the  history  of  this  coun- 
try ever  confronted  such  difficulties  ?  What 
other  party  ever  gained  such  victories  ?  But 
great  as  its  achievements  have  been,  its  work  is 
not  yet  finished.  Out  of  the  fierce  conflicts  of 
the  recent  past,  conflicts  indeed  still  raging, 
order  and  harmony,  conciliation  and  friendship, 
are  yet  to  be  evoked ;  not,  indeed,  hy  unwise 
concession  and  timid  compromi?e,  but  by  that 
firm  policy  which  is  based  on  Right,  and  under 
the  leadership  of  one,  who,  so  terribly  earnest 
in  war,  is  yet  to-day  the  embodiment  of  peace, 
the  conservator  of  public  justice,  the  hope  of  the 
loyal  millions ! 


Governor  Seymour's  Misstatenients  in  regard  to  Army  Expenses, 


In  the  House  of  Representatives,  June  27,  1868,  Mr.  Blaine,  of  Maine,  made  the  fol- 
lowing comments  on  a  misstatement  madt  by  Governor  Seymour,  of  New  York,  in 
his  Cooper  Institute  speech : 


^r-  Speaker,  I  desire  to  call  attention  to  a 
8tatemenr.  made  by  Governor  Seymour  in  his 
recent  speech  at  the  Cooper  Institute  in  the 
city  of  New  York.  In  arraigning  the  Repub- 
Ikan  party  for  extravagance  he  makes  the  fol- 
lowing declaration,  as  reported  in  the  New  York 
World,  which  I  hold  in  my  hand  : 

"Sicce  the  wr  dosed  in  186*  the  Government  his 
spent  for  its  <  ip  n-ses  in  addition  to  it-*  payment  on 
priudp.il  or  i  tere-t  ol  ^u^lic  debt,  more  than  oue 
thousiiiKi  mi'liou  dollars.  Of  (his  sum  there  h  <8  been 
nearly  eight  hut  dred  millions  spt-n'  on  the  Army  and 
ana  for  military  p  rp  iges.  This  is  nearly  oi.e 


Nav 

third  of  the  national  debt. 

peace. 


This  was  *pent  iu  t  me  oi 


The  charge  thus  brought  by  Governor  Sey- 
mour is  that  in  the  three  years  that  have  trans- 
pired since  the  war  closed  our  Army  and  Navy 
have  cost  us  eight  hundred  million  dollars,  or  at 
the  rate  of  nearly  two  hundred  ana  seventy  mil- 
lions per  annum  in  time  of  profound  peace.  The 
statement  is  cunningly  made  with  the  evident 
purpose  of  misleading  the  public  mind,  for  while 
it  is  quite  true  that  the  military  and  navnl  ex- 
penses since  the  close  of  the  war  have  beeu 
eight  hundred  million  dollars,  it  is  absolutely 
untrue  that  they  have  been  two  hundred  and 
seventy  millions  per  annum. 

When  the  war  closed  by  the  surrender  of  Lee 
on  ^the  9ih  of  April,  1865,  the  armies  of  the 
Union  bore  the  names  of  nearly  a  million  men 
on  the  rolls,  and  our  Navy  in  its  vast  and 
wid<  ly-extended  duty  of  blockading  three  thou- 
sand miles  of  coast,  had  nearly  five  hundred 
'vessels  in  service,  with  a  corresponding  number 
of  men.  The  first  result  of  Grant's  magnificent 
series  of  victories  and  final  triumph  o  er  the  re- 
bellion was  to  muster  out  these  countless  hosts 
which  had  borne  our  standard  with  such  glory 
on  the  land  and  on  the  sea.  Months  of  pay 
were  due  to  more  than  half  the  Army  ;  the 
well  earned  closing  bounty  was  due  to  all,  and 
the  sailors,  besides  their  back  pay,  were  to  re- 
ceive millions  of  prize  money  honestly  their 
own.  The  vast  and  almost  incalculable  amount 
needed  to  be  provided  for  these  purposes  must 
be  hsd  at  once,  and  thanks  to  the  patriotism 
and  the  wealth  of  our  people  it  was  had  at  once 
I  have  this  morning  visited  the  Treasury  De 
partment,  and  by  the  official  statements  which  1 
hold  in  my  hand  it  appears  that  the  disburse 
ments  for  the  Army  and  Navy  for  the  one  him 
dred  and  sevent7-four  days  following  Grant's 
closing  victory  amounted  tr>  six  hundred  anc 


wenty-five  million  dollar*.  Hence  it  will  be 
seen  that  more  than  three  fourths  of  the  eight 
nindred  millions  so  triumphantly  paraded  by 
overnor  Seymour  as  the  War  and  Navy  ex- 
senses  of  the  past  three  years  were  really  dis- 
)ursed  almost  in  one  sum  at  the  close  of  hos- 
ilities  as  the  necessary  expenses  of  mustering 
out  our  enormous  military  aud  naval  forces.  To 
supply  ihis  vast  sum  the  current  receipts  of  the 
overnment  were  consumed,  and  the  people  di- 
rectly advanced  five  hundred  aud  thirty  millions  • 
iy  subscribing  that  amount  to  the  ever-inemor-  I 
able  seven-thirty  loan. 

Do  Governor  Seymour  and  his  friends  find 
"ault  with  the  expenditure  thus  incurred  in  mus- 
tering out  the  Army?  D^>  they  be^tudge  the 
soldiers  their  back  pay  and  bounty  aud  the 
sailors  their  hard-earned  wages  and  their  prize 
money?  If  not,  let  them  ce  pe  to  attuck  the 
Republicans  for  promptly  discharging  the  hon- 
orary debts  of  the  Republic,  for  thus  gladly  pay- 
ing the  men  who  risked  their  lives  to  save  the 
life  of  the  nation. 

Six  hundred  and  twenty-five  millions  of  Gov- 
ernor. Seymour's  eight  hundred  mill  ons  being; 
thus  expended  in  mustering  out  the  volunteers, 
his  own  figures  show  that  the  current  and  1  git-! 
imate  expense  of  both  Army  and  Navy  for  the] 
past  three  years  of  peace  have  been  but  one] 
hundred  and  seventy- five  million  dollars,  or 
liitle  more  than  fift v -eight  millions  per  annur 
for  both  branches  of  the  service.  Tne  Gover- 
nor's figures  thus  reduced  are  not  far  from  th( 
truth,  aud  they  show  a  degree  of  economy  quit 
unknown  in  Democratic  times.  Take  the  year 
1858,  for  example,  in  the  administration  of  M 
Buchanan,  and  we  find  that  the  expenses  of  tl 
Navy  were  fourteen  millions  and  ot  the  Arm] 
nearly  twenty-six  millions— for  the  two  w( 
nigh  forty  millions' — and  that  was  in  gold,  ai 
with  an  Army  aud  Navy  of  less  numbers  thai 
have  been  deemed  necessary  for  the  security 
the  public  peace  during  the  past  three  years.  Tal 
ing  the  difference  in  the  amount  of  force  and  thj 
fact  that  the  expenditures  of  Mr.  Buchanan's  ac 
ministration  were  in  coin  and  the  present  exper 
diture  in  paper,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  resul 
shows  strongly  in  favor  of  the  economy  of  Arm] 
expenses  as  administered  by  -eneral  Granj 
The  Army  to-day  in  fact  costs  much  less 
regiment  in  paper  than  it  cost  per  regiment 
gold  under  the  last  Democratic  Administrate 
So  much  for  Governor  Seymour's  figures. 


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